Learning humor is like learning math - practice makes…

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

“Even more so than learning to read, learning mathematics particularly requires that mastery of basic skills and knowledge occur first.”

— Terry Marselle

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

“I’ve wondered if I could take my computer programming skills and apply them to learning math.”

— Anonymous

We never know what we are talking about.

— Karl Popper

Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is…

— Bob Guccione, Jr

I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee…

— Archimedes

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ...

— Paul Halmos

Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

— Paul Halmos

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

— George Polya

Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths…

— Seymour Papert

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

— Johannes Kepler

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

— Tobias Dantzig

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

— Mark Twain

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

— Paul Halmos